Uni Cal Regents approve Sudan divestment...

[bridgit]

'Los Angeles -- The University of California Regents, citing the continuing genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan, voted unanimously Thursday to divest UC of tens of millions of dollars of securities from nine foreign companies doing business in that troubled African nation.

The regents' decision represents a significant step beyond divestment actions taken by other colleges, UC officials said, because the university plans to shed both its direct and indirect holdings in the nine publicly traded firms.

Student Regent Adam Rosenthal, 26, a law student at UC Davis who has been integral in the divestment effort, said the vote will send a message that genocide should not be tolerated.

"This is a historic day," he said. "This is the second time in our 138-year history that the UC Board of Regents said we are going to put human rights at the forefront of our agenda, and that is a bold statement. Hopefully the vote today will send a message to our government, to other universities and to other pension funds and most importantly to the Sudan that we will not stand by."'

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/17/SUDAN.TMP

[sweetheart]

1. iz that guud bridgit?

I'm sure *that* 'll stop them. ;-)

Way too little, way too late for a nation with
a unilateral gunslinger at the helm. Now the
darfur problem is down to the UC regents, lord bless!

[bridgit]

2. there you are; where have you been...you of all people may have an...

even more proper sense yes? peace; even in pieces if need be...no? :hi: :hug:

Darfur, and/or for that matter: Africa-in-sum-total, scares the living shit out of these wannabe cowboys here; or shall I suggest = the chaos that would-may follow in the streets of what used to be...America, as a resultant of a military excursion into home-boy home-towns, so as to say :-)

[sweetheart]

3. the unknown problem

gosh the complexity of asia, the karmas of thousands years of
civilizations rising and falling, and that "our" foot is
planted firmly in a bear trap, they *should* be scared.

Or if all war is civil war, then they are a global force
of rapists, seeking to invade every common on earth and
colonize it with their genetic code.

I've been lurking the outer rim avoiding the rapists as best
as one can. And in their absence, life is golden.

[bridgit]

4. these here so dubbed 'illuminati', their motto is: from chaos...

comes order; yet they are in my sense & from within a sadder 'reality' over & again, little more than waking, antique, malthusian nightmares all

http://desip.igc.org/malthus/conflict.html :thumbsdown:

it was grand to have flown as do Dao Immortals when; while sooner the end this age...we'll be wiping our asses with pine-cones if only

http://zbohy.zatma.org/Dharma/zbohy/Literature/xybook/xy_11.html :thumbsup:

[sweetheart]

5. liking that dao thing

neat story that:

...As long as he discriminated between himself and others,
between desirable and undesirable, between insignificant and important,
he was enslaved to the conceptual world,
he was merely an Arbiter of Illusions.
Nobody in his right mind wants to be that!
And certainly no Dao Immortal wants to spend his life,
or all eternity, either, judging between lies,
deciding which ones are more convincing than others....

It is the rhetorical question indeed.